Leslie Alfred HARRIS

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HARRIS, Leslie Alfred

Service Number:	2042
Enlisted:	15 September 1915, Brisbane, Queensland
Last Rank:	Gunner
Last Unit:	11th Field Artillery Brigade
Born:	Goodna, Queensland, Australia, 28 September 1895
Home Town:	Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Clerk
Died:	Natural causes, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, 15 August 1972, aged 76 years
Cemetery:	Toowoomba Garden of Remembrance \| Cemetery & Crematorium
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World War 1 Service

15 Sep 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Brisbane, Queensland
31 Jan 1916:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 2042, 2nd Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '1' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Wandilla embarkation_ship_number: A62 public_note: ''
31 Jan 1916:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 2042, 2nd Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Wandilla, Brisbane
6 Apr 1916:	Transferred AIF WW1, Gunner, 4th Division Artillery , Serapeum
21 Apr 1916:	Transferred AIF WW1, Gunner, 11th Field Artillery Brigade
10 Jun 1917:	Wounded AIF WW1, Gunner, 2042
1 Aug 1917:	Involvement AIF WW1, Gunner, 2042, 11th Field Artillery Brigade
1 May 1919:	Embarked AIF WW1, Gunner, 2042, 11th Field Artillery Brigade , per China
17 Aug 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1

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Biography

Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Leslie Alfred Harris was the eldest of 9 children of Alfred Edward Harris and Elizabeth Roxborough Smith. Brothers Dougls James and Edward David also served in the Australian Defence Forces. Leslie was a Clerk when he enlisted in 1915 and following WWI, he married Doris Roberts in 1929 in Brisbane, QLD where he worked as a Clerk.

The family moved to Toowoomba in the Darling Downs, QLD in the early 1940s and Leslie continued employment as a Clek

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